Gandharv Vashisth

● Provide weekly/monthly financial status reporting to multiple stakeholder groups including steering
committee using MS Excel and PowerPoint.
● Measured and monitored progress at major milestones to ensure timely completion of all deliverables
within budget and gating hurdles
● Monitored documents and supported Financial Management control processes, including headcount tracking.
● Developed and executed training sessions on the new methodology
● Develop and update project plans, and timelines using MS Project, Excel, JIRA, Planview.
● Implemented metrics and dashboards for performance measurement.
● Ensured Quality Assurance compliance with standards
● Coached team members for performance improvement.
● Managed stakeholders' engagement, and defined project scope, objectives, schedule, resource, communication, and stakeholder management plan.
● Implemented changes through integrated change control, expanding the project scope across teams.
● Conducted daily reviews, identified risks, and implemented mitigation strategies.
● Optimized SharePoint page creation and documentation publishing processes, resulting in streamlined workflows and reduced process time.

● Coordinated production of period project status reports i.e., monthly project reports and weekly flash reports.
● Managed Project Closure: Participated and contributed project controls information for Project Reviews and Lessons Learned Sessions.
● Assisted with project financials and reporting.
● Managed Invoice /SOW /PCR Tracking and Approvals, reporting and Contract Management.
● On-boarding and Off-boarding resources to the projects, monitored & approved the Project team's weekly Time Reporting and escalate non-compliance.
● Served as a point of contact for vendor finance, consultants, process vendor/consultant invoices and performs invoice audit.
● Maintained RAID log and ensured project issues and risks are identified, quantified, managed and tracked. Developed strategies to appropriately mitigate risks.
● Handled multiple projects and acted as a liaison between Business, vendors, IT team and other stakeholders to meet service levels.
● Ensured all project related documentation is final approved, version-controlled, and uploaded in the central repository.
● Participated in process improvement efforts and or the development of new PMO tools or templates.

● Assisted the project managers in developing project artifacts which included proposals, roadmaps, communication
documents, draft project plans, and status reports while complying with applicable project management standards
● Budget tracking & financial management: Reviewed and updated project financials to ensure streams remained on
budget & followed up on vendor invoices for payment.
● Assisted the project manager to report project progress on an ongoing basis & at scheduled points in project life
cycle to steering committees, stakeholders, vendors, project sponsors, Directors and VP's.
● Worked with the procurement team to process vendor SOWs once the terms had been agreed with the Executive
team and followed up to ensure they were signed by all approvers, then shared with vendors.
● Stakeholder management across various groups including cross functional ITS teams, interfacing with technology
specialists, professional staff, vendors, and consultants
● Tracking issues, risks, tasks using JIRA/confluence, assigned roles and tasks to different users for the project
● Assisted with planning & managing of logistics of the project, resources & clients for managed schedules, risks, and
scope of work.
● Assisted the project manager to manage project risk management workshops with business and IT project
managers, team lead, executives, and stakeholders to enhance awareness of risk factors.
● Managed RAID Log ensuring all risks were assigned to an owner and tracked process on mitigation as well as actions
captured during meetings,
● Coordinated and maintained documentation for the Change Management process and submitted RFC (Request for
Change) documentation to the CAB (Change Approval Board) for review and approval.
● Liaised between customer and contractors daily facilitating communications and keeping appropriate parties
updated on project developments and changes.
● Prepared project documentation and disseminated project materials at key points to all stakeholders, including
executives